How To Use Turpentine In A Sentence
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The scent of turpentine and oil paint drifts through his open window from his neighbor's house.
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Confederate stuffed port-fires with turpentined cotton and shot them into rollers only a few yards off.
Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray
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To perform this experiment a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
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The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
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To light their homes, early Americans relied on tallow candles, floating tapers that burned assorted greases, and lamps that burned fuels such as lard and turpentine.
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The turpentine is the product which passes off as vapor, and the rosin is the mass left in the boiler after the distillation of the turpentine.
General Science
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It is, however, not the product "turpentine" that is most esteemed by the natives, but the fruit of the tree, a kind of drupe disposed in clusters.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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There is a striking difference between the smells of limonene's two isomers: (+) limonene has a fresh orange smell whereas (-) limonene smells more like turpentine.
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A washy monochrome, its broad rectangles of turpentine-thinned burnt sienna lack not only the powerful materiality of the other paintings, but the intensity of fully saturated color as well.
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Oil of turpentine, four ounces; camphor, six drachms; oil of cajeput, two drachms.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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One reason, she spent weeks living in turpentine camps.
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She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked.
CORMORANT
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Put four ounces of the best gum gamboge into 32 ozs. of spirits of turpentine, 4 ozs. of dragon's blood into the same quantity of spirits of turpentine as the gamboge, and 1 oz. of anatto into 8 ozs. of the same spirits.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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An odorless turpentine substitute must be used in lieu of turpentine.
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If the entire surface is affected, rub with a damp cloth dipped in turpentine or camphorated oil.
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When drilling in glass, always use oil of turpentine with a little camphor to lubricate the wire-drill.
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Repeated friction of the legs by hand-rubbing and warmth by bandaging and by rubbing the surface of the body with turpentine and alcohol, which is immediately to be dried by rough towels, will excite the circulation and stimulate the emunctories of the skin.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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It might seem an unlikely boast, as the special type of pistachio nut is from a tree better known as having sap which is a source of turpentine.
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He wore fine clothes, a white linen brocade shirt and some of the finest trousers shed ever set eyes on, but they were all completely soaked through with various liquids, such as oil and turpentine.
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Take of 95 percent alcohol 2 quarts, and add to it the following articles: oils of sarsafras and hemlock, spirits of turpentine, balsam of fir, chloriform, tincture of catechu and guaiacum, of each 1 oz., oil of origanum 2 oz., oil of wintergreen 1/2 oz., and gum of camphor 1/2 oz.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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We are dipped in turpentine, the film is wiped from our eyeballs, we really see what we are looking at (why do we rarely see?).
Excerpts, Quotes, etc.
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The paintings have the appearance of palimpsests, with rubbed-out passages, and residues of paint and turpentine streaming down the canvas.
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Take unsized paper and apply a coat of varnish made of equal parts of Canada balsam and oil of turpentine.
Practical Mechanics for Boys
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The turpentine gathered from the newly boxed or virgin tree is very valuable, on account of its producing a peculiarly clear and white rosin, which is used in the manufacture of the finer kinds of soap, and by 'Rosin the Bow,' and commands, ordinarily, nearly five times the price of the common article.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
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She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked.
CORMORANT
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Substances such as menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, or turpentine cause cool or hot sensations that can temporarily relieve or cover up pain.
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Rub the bedsteads in the joints with equal parts of spirits of turpentine and kerosene oil, and the cracks of the surbase in rooms where there are many.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
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He reeked of fire: smoke and pinesap and scorched cloth, and the bitter tang of turpentine.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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The little front parlour, which is the old lady's ordinary sitting-room, is a perfect picture of quiet neatness; the carpet is covered with brown Holland, the glass and picture-frames are carefully enveloped in yellow muslin; the table-covers are never taken off, except when the leaves are turpentined and bees '- waxed, an operation which is regularly commenced every other morning at half-past nine o'clock -- and the little nicknacks are always arranged in precisely the same manner.
Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people
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The majority of what I have termed turpentine-farmers -- meaning the small proprietors of the long-leafed pine forest land, are people but a grade superior, in character or condition, to these vagabonds.
A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy
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At times I crave the intoxicating fragrance of linseed oil and turpentine, the sound of the brush on the canvas.
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A. Vicks VapoRub contains quite a few herbal derivatives, including menthol, camphor, eucalyptus oil, cedarleaf oil, nutmeg oil, thymol and turpentine oil.
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In a few cases which have come under my observation, I have found this and the senega snakeroot (Polygala senega) convenient and useful prescriptions in this disease; the latter, with tartar emetic solution, to promote expectoration; and the former, with flaxseed tea, as a stimulant diaphoretic, combining them with spirits of turpentine when it has assumed the typhoid form.
Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs
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Soothly, I discovered that diachylum emplasture was tenpence the pound, and tamarinds fivepence; and grew well weary of ringing the changes upon rosin and frankincense, litharge and turpentine, oil of violets and flowers of beans, _Gratia
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers
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Waterton says -- 'The atmosphere of spirit of turpentine will allow neither acarus nor any insect to live in it: Do you believe this?
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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Brass articles that have to be cleaned frequently should be covered with oil of turpentine, or thin English copal varnish.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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Finally, Dr Armstrong mentioned that the volatile portion of the distillate from the non-volatile product of the oxidation of oil of turpentine in moist air furnishes ordinary cymene when treated in the manner above described.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881
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The turpentine gathered from the newly boxed or virgin tree is very valuable, on account of its producing a peculiarly clear and white rosin, which is used in the manufacture of the finer kinds of soap, and by "Rosin the Bow.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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You get in trim, he gets to drink more turpentine, and everybody's happy.
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-- A myrtaceous plant from Australia, called the turpentine tree, owing to its furnishing a fluid resembling that product.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture
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Our perennial supply of high quality pine resin, rosin and turpentine.
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Violet comes running out of the house, a waft of oil paint and turpentine following.
SPLITTING
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On its first appearance the turpentine is of a sirupy consistence, and is quite transparent; gradually it becomes more opaque, and of a yellowish-white color.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881
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The warehouse walls blended into each other like a painting drenched with turpentine.
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The air reeked with the smell of paint, turpentine, Bull Durham tobacco, and the aromatic Indian herb kinnikinnick.
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His secretary was to get the clangula to turpentine overside his tsuga to end the gaelic saturnism for planless lounge.
Rational Review
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Pure air -- from the neighbourhood of a pinetum for the sake of the turpentine -- unadulterated wine, and the reflections of an unsophisticated spirit in the presence of the works of nature -- these, my boy, are the best medical appliances and the best religious comforts.
Merry Men
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Keep combustible liquids such as paint thinner, kerosene, charcoal lighter fluid, and turpentine away from heat sources.
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The opportunity you seized not only to look at art but to be art will be terminally turpentined away.
David Finkle: Just Like Andy Warhol, You Can Adorn a Museum of Modern Art Wall
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To make this, mix equal quantities of linseed oil, white spirit or turpentine, and vinegar in a bottle and shake well.
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Dey dosed 'em up wid oil and turpentine and give 'em teas made out of hoarhound for some mis'ries and bone-set for other troubles.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 3
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... on the easel, a rectangular canvas receives an inspired stroke ... in the air the smell of turpentine is thick enough to taste.
French Word-A-Day:
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California evergreen having a fruit resembling a nutmeg but with a strong turpentine flavor.
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Turpentine may also be rubbed over the chest with fomentation for the same object.
Natural Remedies for Curing Bronchitis
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After removing the nest it is well to drop spirit of turpentine into the hole: that will most effectually destroy any chegoe that may be lurking there.
Wanderings in South America
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They are, however, susceptible to shrinkage from exposure to solvents containing naphtha or turpentine.
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To perform this experiment a little oil of turpentine was placed at the bottom of a glass tube surrounded with boiling liquid air.
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Gloria Vollmers in her article "Industrial slavery in the United States: the North Carolina turpentine industry 1849-61" states "The nature of the work, which covered thousands of acres of forestland, led to the use of a task system whereby each slave was assigned a large tract of forest that was worked with little supervision over several months.
John
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And so saying, he lighted a little pledget of tow, previously steeped in turpentine, and, popping it into the tin vessel, clapped it on the head.
Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851
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The generation and damage regulation of red turpentine beetle (Dendroctonus valens) are studied with the method of sample plot and tree-by-tree survey.
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Of course Jessie could have waxed and turpentined the table better than I; but no one but me, I flatter myself, could have shown the patience and ingenuity necessary for extracting all that ink!
New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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Softwoods emit terpenes, the most common of which is alpha pinene, which is what turpentine is made of.
Isoprene
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Close at hand, too, there is a reliefless and relentless smell of pitch and turpentine; there is a ceaseless melancholy in their sighing and complaining foliage; one walks over a soundless carpet of beaten yellow bark and dead spines of the foliage till he feels like a wandering spirit bereft of a footfall; he tires of the endless tufts of needles and yearns for substantial, shapely leaves; he looks for moss and grass to loll upon, and finds none, for where there is no bark there is naked clay and dirt, enemies to pensive musing and clean apparel.
Roughing It
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These ‘harder’ resins include Strasbourg turpentine (olio d' abezzo) from the European silver fir, Abies alba and sandarac resin, from Tetraclinis articulata and, possibly, from some Juniperus species.
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_Terebene_, a mixture of dipentene and other hydrocarbons prepared from turpentine oil by treatment with concentrated sulphuric acid, is used chiefly in medicated soaps.
The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
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Movie showings and lectures were held in schoolhouses, churches, sawmill settlements, and turpentine camps.
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Substances such as menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, or turpentine cause cool or hot sensations that can temporarily relieve or cover up pain.
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Many spots will disappear if rubbed with a solution made of equal parts of boiled linseed oil, turpentine and vinegar, or with a cleaning-polishing wax.
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She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked.
CORMORANT
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Substances such as menthol, wintergreen oil, eucalyptus oil, or turpentine cause cool or hot sensations that can temporarily relieve or cover up pain.
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. Pablo Picasso
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The privately-owned firm manufactures and packages an array of products including white spirit, methylated spirit, turpentine and creosote.
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For the war cut off the shipment of turpentine from the South, creating an acute shortage of camphene, the cheap illuminating oil derived from turpentine.
The Prize
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When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine. Pablo Picasso
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Son of an artist, Ward was raised with the smell of oil paints and turpentine and spent much of his childhood going in the back doors of museums and galleries.
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a distinct odor of turpentine
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The sudden darkness engulfed her, and her senses lurched at the familiar cool aroma of polish and turpentine.
COMPULSION
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Take of cantharides 2 oz., strong mercurial ointment 4 oz., oil of turpentine 4 oz., iodine 3 oz., mix all with a sufficiency of lard to make a thin ointment; apply to the spavin only once a day until it bursts; then oil it with sweet oil until healed.
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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And some make a paste for the winter months, at which time the Chub is accounted best, for then it is observed, that the forked bones are lost, or turned into a kind of gristle, especially if he be baked, of cheese and turpentine.
The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
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It was created by adding a good deal of turpentine to the paint before it was applied as the final coat.
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Even the furloughed convicts who boil down pine trees into turpentine in my vast forest have been receiving an extra pullet or two in their monthly rations.
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The sudden darkness engulfed her, and her senses lurched at the familiar cool aroma of polish and turpentine.
COMPULSION
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Stimulants, in the form of turpentine emulsion and doses of ipecacuanha, reinforced the weak pulse rate and stimulated blood flow.
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They are, however, susceptible to shrinkage from exposure to solvents containing naphtha or turpentine.
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The pine lands have not, so far, been so fully tested for agricultural purposes as any other general section of the State, the reason being that the pine timber was too valuable to be cut away and farming the turpentine was the most profitable pursuit.
The Resources of North Carolina: Its Natural Wealth, Condition, and Advantages, as Existing in 1869. Presented to the Capitalists and People of the Central and Northern States
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For mammals I recommend my formula of burnt alum and saltpetre (No. 9), followed by a wash of benzoline or turpentine twice a year, or by any one of the mercurial preparations given.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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As established Japanese black pines fall victim to an unstoppable infestation of black turpentine beetles along the Atlantic coast, cypress trees are taking their place.
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For deodorising vessels which have contained the essences of turpentine, creasote, assafetida, or other such drugs, it [380] will answer to introduce some bruised Mustard-seed, and then a little water, shaking the vessel well for a minute or more, and afterwards rinsing it out with plenty of water.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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I got out my sketch book and showed him some of the paintings I'd done of lizard head spires piercing skies of cobalt and turpentine.
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It occurs synthetically as a byproduct in the manufacture of acetaldehyde and formaldehyde and during the atmospheric oxidation of turpentine.
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The galvanoplastic process of M. Coblence for obtaining electrotypes of wood-engravings is as follows: A frame is laid upon a marble block, and then covered with a solution of wax, colophane, and turpentine.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
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They'll sniff, claw, sample or rub aromatic wood - such as cedar or pine - and petroleum products - such as tarpaper, paint, turpentine, kerosene and charcoal lighting fluid.
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It is properly an empyreumatic oil of turpentine, and has been much used in medicine both externally and internally.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
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His emphysema prevents him from using conventional oil paints, which require turpentine and thinners, so he uses a modern, water-based alternative.
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The air reeked with the smell of paint, turpentine, Bull Durham tobacco, and the aromatic Indian herb kinnikinnick.
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Take of linseed oil 2-1/2 galls., spirits of turpentine 2-1/2 galls., western petroleum 1 gall., liquor potass 8 oz., sap green
Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets
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the thinning of paint with turpentine
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Experimenters soon found that the hardened gum could be dissolved in turpentine and then reshaped.
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Keeping with traditional methods, Hansen uses a boiled mixture of turpentine and pine tar to protect the unfinished wood.
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Spain needed pine for tar, turpentine, and wood-essential naval stores for its shipbuilding industry in Cuba.
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I thought they was making a fool of me when they turpentined my bum.
Wop-She-Ad-It
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When the floor is entirely dry, it is sealed, most commonly with successive applications of linseed oil and turpentine.
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This tendency was aggravated by apparent pica (an abnormal craving) that prompted him at various times to inhale the terpene camphor and to ingest other products containing terpenes, namely his oil paints and turpentine.
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The proportions of this luting are determined by putting more or less resin and red ochre, or turpentine and wax, as the "lithocolle" is to be more or less brittle or elastic.
Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling a
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The resin harvested from the trees made eco-friendly turpentine, replacing imported petroleum-based products.
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His emphysema prevents him from using conventional oil paints, which require turpentine and thinners, so he uses a modern, water-based alternative.
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A painter's tack rag or turpentine-dampened rag will help pick up much of this dirt.
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They contains a wood preservative, a small amount of wax as a water repellent, a resin or drying oil, and a solvent such as turpentine or mineral spirits.
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Store all flammables (ie. Gas, turpentine, paints, propane, etc.) in an outdoor shed.
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An odorless turpentine substitute must be used in lieu of turpentine.
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It is made with a series of stencils cut out of paper soaked in linseed oil, turpentine and hand-coloured.
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Violet comes running out of the house, a waft of oil paint and turpentine following.
SPLITTING
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She squirmed back from the transom and sat up, capping the paint can and washing out the brush with turpentine, talking as she worked.
CORMORANT
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Then he repeatedly applies furniture varnish or stain which he wipes away with turpentine and reapplies to darken the edges of the work.
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He sat in a small taverna that fronted the edge of the harbor of Aegina, drinking something that tasted like warmed-over turpentine.
CORMORANT
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For example, toxic wastes like paint, turpentine, and other household products can be collected and redistributed at community exchanges instead of being dumped.
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A rope was turpentined, and touched with burning match, but the flame spread up and down the whole spiral length of the rope torch, to the infinite vexation of the lighter.
Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
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Their son came home from college for a weekend of laundry and turpentined every canvas.
Five Uneasy Pieces
